‘If entire group is taking part in with strike fee of 200, captain can’t bat with 120’ – Irfan Pathan criticizes Hardik Pandya’s subpar knock in opposition to SRH

Mumbai Indians discovered themselves in fairly a multitude as Sunrisers Hyderabad’s batters wreaked havoc within the first innings in their conflict. It’s value noting that MI and SRH confronted off on the Rajiv Gandhi World Stadium in Hyderabad within the 8th sport of the IPL 2024 on Wednesday, March 27. 

The primary innings noticed Hyderabad installed a efficiency of a life-time, breaking a longstanding IPL file. The SRH batters blended to put up a complete of 277 runs within the first innings of the sport. 

As Mumbai Indians got here out to chase down the mammoth general, the facet were given off to a excellent get started. Openers Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma scored 35 and 26 runs, respectively. Tilak Varma added 64 runs at the board in 34 deliveries, with Tim David scoring 42* in 22 balls. 

At one level within the sport, the chase seemed fairly imaginable for the five-time champions. Alternatively, it used to be the knock of skipper Hardik Pandya that gave the impression to put a dent in MI’s plans. Pandya scored 24 runs in 20 deliveries, keeping up a strike fee of 120.

The similar knock didn’t sit down neatly with former Indian all-rounder Irfan Pathan. Taking to X (previously referred to as Twitter), Pathan tweeted that the skipper can’t be taking part in with a strike fee of 120 with any such mammoth goal to chase. 

“If the entire group is taking part in with the strike of 200, Captain can’t bat with the batting strike fee of 120,” Pathan tweeted.

Mumbai Indians face two losses in two suits

Talking of Mumbai Indians, the facet has gotten off to a horrid begin to their IPL 2024 marketing campaign. Taking over Gujarat Titans of their first sport of the season, Mumbai fell quick, shedding their first sport, and it sort of feels that the tale has now not modified. 

Dropping to Sunrisers Hyderabad by way of 31 runs, Mumbai registered their 2nd loss of their 2nd sport and recently sit down in 9th position within the standings with 0 issues in two suits. 

The facet will hope to do higher as they go back to the Wankhede Stadium for his or her subsequent sport once they tackle Rajasthan Royals within the 14th sport of the event on Monday, April 1.

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